Improvement in scroll-packages for holding shoe-nails



H. N, ALLEN. Scroll-Packages for Holding Shoe-Nails.

No. 212,642. Patented Feb. 25,1879.

N.FETERS, PHOTOZLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOBATIO N. ALLEN, OF NOBWOOD, ASSIGNOR TO W. H. KIMBALL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCROLL-PACKAGES FOR HOLDING SHOE-NAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 212,642, dated February 25, 1879 application filed September 11, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORATIO N. ALLEN, of N orwood, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scroll-Packages for Holding Shoe-Nails, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a device for receiving boot and shoe nails as they are formed or made by the machine, and retaining them all in the same position, and permit of their transportation, and, when desired for use, admit of being fed from such scroll into an inclined channel or groove con necting with the driving mechanism of a common pegging-machine, as now in general use; and it consists in the construction and arran gement of the device hereinafter described and set forth, as an improved article of manufacture.

Figure 1 isa perspective view of my invention, filled with nails, ready to be driven. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same.

A represents an eccentric core or spool, having attached to its periphery a strip or ribbon of paper, B, which is wound around the spool, and surrounding a continuous row or series of nails, E, which may overlap the preceding row when one course has been deposited therein, and so on until several courses have been deposited, thus forming a continuous series in the form of a scroll, with the strip of paper B wound around between the several courses, and then pasted or otherwise fastened to itself, and leaving a free end, H, as shown in Fig. 1. i

To one end of the spool A is secured a disk of paper, P, upon which the ends of the nails E rest when the package is being handled or transported, which, together with the strip B, keeps the nails in proper position to be fed therefrom as the nails are driven, the strip being adapted to be unwound by being drawn between pressure-rolls adapted for the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As an improved article of manufacture, the above-described shoe-nail package, consisting of the core or spool A, having the paper ribbon B and disk I, said ribbon being wound around a continuous series of nails, forming a scroll, as shown, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

SYLvnNUs WALKER, CHARLES H. TRASK. 

